How can the charset parameter be correctly set when making GET requests to Google in PHP?

When making GET requests to Google in PHP, the charset parameter can be correctly set by including it in the request headers. This parameter specifies the character encoding used in the response from the server. To set the charset parameter, you can add it to the headers array using the key 'Accept-Charset' with the desired character encoding value, such as 'UTF-8'. 

$url = 'https://www.google.com';
$headers = [
    'Accept-Charset: UTF-8'
];

$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

$response = curl_exec($ch);

if ($response === false) {
    echo 'Error: ' . curl_error($ch);
} else {
    echo $response;
}

curl_close($ch);

Keywords

charset parameter GET requests Google PHP encoding

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